Whether you are looking to take your first steps into the wonders of the web or are a veteran of the internet space, Echo Alley will help. We understand that we need to speak your language and play by your rules. You will find a team that enjoys using their brains and exercising their web muscles to develop products that generate measurable business value and delight the people who use them.

We will help you build your on-line brand or extend your off-line brand into the digital space. How can a poorly prepared web product compromise the value of your brand equity? How can the web compliment the promise that your brand has made? Our people know how to find the answers to these and other tough questions that effect the value of your brand offering.

Our emphasis on user experience centers on developing useful interactions for your customers. To do this Echo Alley uses scenario driven user-center design processes. We collaborate with you to understand your business and how your customers use your current products. Additionally, our experience with ethnographic considerations, integration of online and offline customer behavior and other critical factors result in web sites that are useful and usable to your target audience. This transforms short term interactions into long-term relationships.

Our team includes experienced information architects who work collaboratively with you to identify all the ways that your customers might interact with your website. The skills we apply to this process range from designing navigation models and categorizing content to defining website elements at the site, screen, and page level. This ensures that Echo Alley develops a website that enables your customers to accomplish tasks easily, while meeting your business needs. Our implemented information architecture effectiveness results from our emphasis on a user-centered design processes, our experience gained through hundreds of web-based projects and Echo Alley’s unrelenting commitment to client collaboration.

Our technologists are bilingual. They speak techo-engineer and English. They know the acronyms: XML, PHP, SQL, CMS and how to use them. The technology team at Echo Alley is fully qualified to address the full range of web-related activities, including content management systems, custom software development, legacy system migration to XML, back-end and middleware integration. In addition Echo Alley is able to engineer XML based CMS integration with rich media technologies such as Flash and QuickTime. Echo Alley is prepared to address the web in the context of multiple platforms, inventory and content management systems.

Organizations have found that web based products in the form of internally focused tools and intranets enable their teams to increase operational efficiencies through improved internal communications. Echo Alley has established expertise in this area from working with our clients to identify opportunities for high return on investment through the development of web based intranets, productivity tools and communication tools that your people and your controller will thank you for.

We simply enjoy helping our clients get the most for their time and money. Contact us to learn more about how Echo Alley can work best with you.